History Wrestling / RoyalRumble

** Creator/LoganPaul defeated Kevin Owens by disqualification after Owens accidentally wear a brass knuckles and referee saw it.

** Wrestling/RomanReigns retained his title vs Wrestling/KevinOwens in non-Rumble match in the 2021 and [[HistoryRepeats 2023]] events. Wrestling/NiaJax and Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler defeated Wrestling/CharlotteFlair and [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] and win the Women's Tag Team Championships in a non-Rumble match on the pre-show.

* In 43 attempts[[note]]42 attempts for numbers 21-30, the first Rumble only had 20 people[[/note]] entry numbers 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, and 26 have never won.

* In 43 attempts[[note]]42 attempts for numbers 21-30, the first Rumble only had 20 people[[/note]] entry numbers 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 20, 21, and 26 have never won.

** Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} in 1993, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon in 1999, Wrestling/RandyOrton in 2009, Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio in 2011 and Wrestling/RheaRipley in 2023 are straight examples.
** Wrestling/RicFlair's win in 1992, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's win in 1997, Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s win in 2005, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}'s win in 2010, Wrestling/TripleH's win in 2016, Wrestling/RandyOrton's win in 2017, Wrestling/CharlotteFlair's win in 2020, Wrestling/RheaRipley's win in 2023 and Wrestling/{{Bayley}}'s win in 2024 are possible examples depending on how you viewed their characters at the time. All were officially heels, and while Flair and Triple H stayed heel, the rest (most famously Batista) turned face shortly afterwards.

** Wrestling/RicFlair's win in 1992, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's win in 1997, Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s win in 2005, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}'s win in 2010, Wrestling/TripleH's win in 2016, Wrestling/RandyOrton's win in 2017, Wrestling/CharlotteFlair's win in 2020, Wrestling/RheaRipley win in 2023 and Wrestling/{{Bayley}} win in 2024 are possible examples depending on how you viewed their characters at the time. All were officially heels, and while Flair and Triple H stayed heel, the rest (most famously Batista) turned face shortly afterwards.

** Wrestling/RicFlair's win in 1992, Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's win in 1997, Wrestling/{{Batista}}'s win in 2005, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}'s win in 2010, Wrestling/TripleH's win in 2016, Wrestling/RandyOrton's win in 2017, and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair's win in 2020 are possible examples depending on how you viewed their characters at the time. All were officially heels, and while Flair and Triple H stayed heel, the rest (most famously Batista) turned face shortly afterwards.

* BookEnds: The 1995, 1999, and 2021 events saw the first two entrants being the last two standing. 2023 would join them with the women's side. (In a variant, the 2006 event saw the first two entrants being among the last ''three'' standing, alongside the last entrant.) If you want to take things further, the 1995, 2004, 2021 men's, and 2023 women's events had the very first win the whole thing.

* {{Crossover}}: The 2022 edition of the Women's Royal Rumble match had Wrestling/MickieJames entering as Wrestling/ImpactWrestling's Knockouts champion. Two years later, with Impact having revived their old TNA name, Jordynne Grace (holding the same title under a new name related to the TNA name's revival) entered the Women's Rumble.

** Both [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] and Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who retained their titles vs. Wrestling/AJStyles and [[Wrestling/FergalDevitt Finn Balor]] in non-Rumble matches in the 2019 event. Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura defeated Wrestling/{{Rusev|AndLana}} in a non-Rumble match (during which Lana, acting as Rusev's valet at the time, suffers the injury that lets Becky Lynch win the women's Rumble) and wins the United States Championship for the second time.

* BookEnds: The 1995 and 1999 events saw the first two entrants being the last two standing. 2023 would join them with the women's side. (In a variant, the 2006 event saw the first two entrants being among the last ''three'' standing, alongside the last entrant.) If you want to take things further, the 1995 and 2004 events had the very first win the whole thing.

* {{Crossover}}: The 2022 edition of the Women's Royal Rumble match had Wrestling/MickieJames entering as Wrestling/ImpactWrestling's Knockouts champion.

** Feuding wrestlers may put aside their differences momentarily to work together and defeat a bigger and more powerful foe. This went up to eleven with the biggest wrestlers like Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Wrestling/TheBigShow, who often needed ''all'' of the other wrestlers in the ring teaming up to throw them over.

** Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin has won the event a record three times, while Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/TripleH, Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, Wrestling/RandyOrton and Wrestling/BrockLesnar have all won twice.
** Overlapping with TheNotableNumeral, the 27th and 28th entrants have won four times, the 1st and 24th entrants have won thrice, and the 2nd, 19th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, and 29th entrants have all won twice...on the men's side. For the women, the 28th entrants have won twice. The 30th entrant has five wins as of 2023.

** Speaking of Orton, he was part of a PowerTrio [[PowerStable stable]] in the two events that he won (Legacy in 2009, Wrestling/TheWyattFamily in 2017).
** Wrestling/BigShow, Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/JohnCena have all been runner-up on two different occasions, while Wrestling/RomanReigns ended up in second place four times.

** ''[[Wrestling/WWEToughEnough Tough Enough]]'' rookie Maven ended up becoming a LethalJokeCharacter in 2002 by eliminating Wrestling/TheUndertaker.

** Wrestling/{{Kane}} set the record of the most eliminations in a Royal Rumble match during the 2001 with 11. This would last until 2014, when Wrestling/RomanReigns (then a member of Wrestling/TheShield) picked up 12 in his ''first'' appearance in the match. Wrestling/BraunStrowman would go on to break the record in 2018, coming in at 13 eliminations during the ''Greatest Royal Rumble'', and Wrestling/BrockLesnar would tie the record in 2020. The Lesnar example in 2020 actually took this to its logical extreme, as he entered the Men's Royal Rumble match at number 1, and proceeded to eliminate the first 13 men to come after him (the next two candidates to continue that chain, Ricochet and Drew [=McIntyre=], worked together to eliminate him).

* LiteralCliffhanger: Expect to see a lot of wrestlers hanging to the ropes for dear life. Especially if they're the more athletic ones.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: Particularly during the brand extension years when it was rare to see wrestlers from ''Raw'' and ''[=SmackDown=]'' in the ring together, though it always brought together wrestlers who would otherwise not be likely to fight one another, being higher or lower on the card. With the introduction of ''Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}'', it also had the added benefit of introducing the audience to potential future stars that were currently still in developmental. Of particular note is the 2018 PPV, which has ''four'' such stars across both Rumbles.[[note]]for the men's, then-NXT Champion Wrestling/AndradeCienAlmas and Wrestling/AdamCole, and for the women's, then NXT Women's Champion Ember Moon and Kairi Sane[[/note]] WWE went even further in 2022, with Mickie James entering as Impact Wrestling's Knockouts Champion.

** In 2023, Rey Mysterio was unable to enter the match before the next number was called out (due to being beaten up up by his son Dominick who ironically came out next), so he was disqualified.

** In 2024, Pat [=McAfee=], who was one of the commentators, was surprised to hear his number being called out and entered the ring in a dress shirt and shoes, only to see extremely angry Bron Breakker and Omos in the center. Wisely, he decides to go over the top rope, then to get back into the ring and square up... only to change his mind once more and actually eliminate himself.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Before the Women's Rumble was created, a few Rumbles had at least one female participant. She was usually a particularly buff woman like {{Wrestling/Chyna}} or Wrestling/BethPhoenix who could credibly mix it up with the men.

** One of the earliest examples (and a rare non-heel one) of this is Wrestling/HulkHogan of all people; both times he was eliminated in a Royal Rumble match, he immediately screwed the person who eliminated him out of winning too. [[note]]In 1989, Hogan was eliminated by the Twin Towers (Wrestling/BigBossMan and Wrestling/TheOneManGang), and he managed to get back to the ring and pull out Boss Man. Then in 1992, when [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid Justice]] tossed Hogan, Hogan grabbed Sid's arm from the outside, allowing Wrestling/RicFlair to toss Sid and win the Rumble.[[/note]]

** Shawn Michaels became almost catatonic on the outside of the ring after Wrestling/{{Batista}} eliminated him in 2010. Then, after a HeroicBSOD, he started manhandling and [[FinishingMove superkicking]] referees out of frustration despite being a {{face}} (Michaels had become [[SanitySlippage obsessed]] with redeeming his ''[=WrestleMania=]'' XXV loss to Wrestling/TheUndertaker, and winning the Royal Rumble match was his only guaranteed chance as Taker was champion at the time).

** In the 2018 Women's Royal Rumble, Wrestling/VickieGuerrero attacked incoming entrant Wrestling/{{Carmella}} with the latter's Money in the Bank briefcase after she was eliminated from the Women's Rumble by every other entrant in the ring at the time.

** In the 2024 Men's Royal Rumble, Wrestling/KarrionKross, after being eliminated by Bobby Lashley, attacked Lashley and later eliminated him from the Rumble match.

*** This happened twice in 2024: at first he entered the Women's Rumble (he thought his number was called up just as Valhalla was heading into the ring), only to be eliminated by Wrestling/NiaJax a few seconds later. He later went to participate in the Men's Rumble, where he put the eliminated JD [=McDonagh=] back into the match only for him to be tossed out against, and then Truth, assuming it was a tag team match, waited for Wrestling/DominikMysterio to tag him in. Once he got tagged, Truth quickly unleashed a barrage of moves at [[Wrestling/{{Walter}} Gunther]], only to be quickly smashed by the Ring General.

** Wrestling/MickFoley in 2004. Subverted by Wrestling/TheUndertaker, who made his presence felt but did not actually appear.

** 2012 had Wrestling/RoadDogg and [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Kharma]].

** 2015 had [[Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz Bubba Ray Dudley]] and Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}}.

** Also from the 2016 ''Rumble'', though to a lesser extent, was the recently returned-from-injury Wrestling/SamiZayn. Wrestling/KevinOwens, whose night was already going less-than-ideally, had a minor VillainousBreakdown at that one, which reached its apex when Zayn eliminated him from the match.

** The first women's Rumble in 2018 had a fair few, which was only compounded by the novelty of the event. Among them include Wrestling/TorrieWilson, Wrestling/MollyHolly, NXT Women's Champion Wrestling/EmberMoon, Kairi Sane, Wrestling/{{Lita}}, Wrestling/BethPhoenix and Wrestling/TrishStratus.

** The IWC typically accepted Edge's denials of a return in late 2019-early 2020 at face value, given his abrupt retirement in 2011 because of fears a single bump gone wrong could easily paralyse him. This only made his return at the 2020 Rumble even more shocking (and sweeter), with 40,000 fans in attendance blowing the proverbial roof off. NXT cameos included Wrestling/KeithLee and Wrestling/MattRiddle, and the event also saw the return of Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter.

** In the 2021 Men's Rumble had Wrestling/{{Carlito|Colon}}, Wrestling/{{Kane}}, [[Wrestling/GregoryHelms Hurricane Helms]], Wrestling/{{Christian}}, Wrestling/SethRollins and NXT wrestler Damian Priest.

** In the 2022 Women's Rumble had Wrestling/{{Melina}}, Wrestling/{{Cameron}}, Wrestling/{{Ivory}} (in her Wrestling/RightToCensor gimmick nonetheless!), Wrestling/SummerRae, Sarah Logan and Wrestling/RondaRousey.
** In the 2022 Men's Rumble had non-combatant and rapper Music/BadBunny while Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon made his brief in-ring return at the 28th spot.
** The 2023 Women's Rumble had Wrestling/MichelleMcCool, Chelsea Green and Wrestling/NiaJax, as well as the NXT Women's Champion Roxanne Perez, Zoey Stark and Indi Hartwell from NXT.

** The 2024 Women's Rumble had Wrestling/{{Naomi}}, Jordynne Grace, Jade Cargill and NXT's Tiffany Stratton.

* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] holds the ironman record at 1:16:05 if you count the Greatest Royal Rumble, or [[Wrestling/{{Walter}} Gunther]] holds the record at 1:11:40 in the 2023 Rumble if you only count the ones in January. Wrestling/RheaRipley is the current ironwoman record holder at 1:01:08, also in 2023. The record for ''shortest'' iron(wo)man time belongs to John Cena in 2010, as his time of only 22:11 weirdly gave him the honors that year in a Rumble with 40 men. This is far from a guarantee of actually winning, the ironman/woman has only won 10 of 43 Rumbles and neither Danielson nor Gunther won the matches they set the record in, though Ripley did (as did Mysterio, the previous holder of the record held by Gunther for the traditional Rumble and Danielson overall). Wrestling/SethRollins is the only one of those winners to enter after #3 (the number from which Flair won the 1992 Rumble), winning as the 10th entry (with a time of 43:00) in 2019. Wrestling/TripleH (in 1996) has an ironman record with a twist; he lasted 48 minutes without making a single elimination.
* Wrestling/SteveAustin is the only person to win the match more than twice, with 3 (1997, 1998, and 2001). 9 guys have won it twice (in chronological order of their second win): Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, Triple H, Randy Orton, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, Wrestling/BrockLesnar, and Wrestling/CodyRhodes. There's yet to be a two-time women's Rumble winner, but there's also only been 7 women's Rumbles. Hogan, Michaels, Austin, and Rhodes are the only people that have won 2 years in a row.

** Triple H (who entered at #7) becomes the first person to finish as runner-up consecutively and the third person overall to finish in this position twice.

** The entire commentary team (Wrestling/JerryLawler. Wrestling/BookerT, and Wrestling/MichaelCole) competed in the match; Lawler and Booker, both eliminated by the time of Cole's entry, would eliminate Cole as he tried escaping from female wrestler [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Kharma]].

** Wrestling/{{Andrade|CienAlmas}}'s entrance marked his return to WWE three years after leaving for Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling.
** Punk made his first Royal Rumble appearance since the 2014 Rumble, which was itself his final WWE appearance before walking out on the company until his return in late 2023.

** Wrestling/AliciaFox becomes the first person to win a title '''during''' a rumble match after 24-7 champion R-Truth enters the ring and gets rolled up by Fox after the pair fend off a pack of challengers that were pursuing R-Truth.

** As part of a cross-promotional deal, [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling Impact Wrestling]] Knockouts World Champion Wrestling/MickieJames took part in the Rumble.

** TNA Knockouts World Champion Jordynne Grace entered the rumble, marking the second time the reigning Knockouts Champion entered, the first being Mickie James in 2022.

** Valhalla had the shortest time with 5 seconds, tying the record set by Chelsea Green a year before.
** Jade Cargill entered at the #28 spot, making her in-ring debut with WWE.

** Liv Morgan became the first female wrestler to finish runner-up in the Women's Rumble twice in a row.

* Unsurprisingly, #30 has the most winners across both genders, with 5. What probably ''is'' surprising (or not if you understand how pro wrestling booking works) is that the #1 entry has won 4 times and the #2 entry (which is essentially the same thing as being #1) has won twice. #27 and #28 have also produced 4 winners each. Both Rumbles that had more than 30 people had the winner enter after #30 (Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio from #38 in 2010, Wrestling/BraunStrowman from #41 in the ''Greatest Royal Rumble''.) Batista is the only person to win twice with the same number, as both his wins came from the #28 spot.

* Wrestling/DanaBrooke, Wrestling/LivMorgan, Wrestling/{{Tamina}}, and Wrestling/{{Natalya}} are the only wrestlers to appear in all six women's Rumbles.

* Wrestling/SteveAustin is the only person to win the match more than twice, with 3 (1997, 1998, and 2001). 9 guys have won it twice (in chronological order of their second win): Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, Triple H, Randy Orton, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}, Wrestling/BrockLesnar, and Wrestling/CodyRhodes. There's yet to be a two-time women's Rumble winner, but there's also only been 6 women's Rumbles. Hogan, Michaels, Austin, and Rhodes are the only people that have won 2 years in a row.

* Braun Strowman and Brock Lesnar are tied for the single match elimination record with 13 (Brock scored his consecutively in a traditional Rumble). Wrestling/BiancaBelair and Wrestling/ShaynaBaszler are tied for the women with 8 apiece.

** Valhalla had the shortest time with 5 seconds, tying the record set last year by Chelsea Green.

* Wrestling/ChrisJericho has the longest cumulative time in Rumble matches at 4:59:33, spread out over 11 entries. Randy Orton, Wrestling/ReyMysterio, and Wrestling/TripleH have also spent over 4 hours in Rumble matches. Wrestling/CharlotteFlair is the current women's record holder, at 2:21:28 over four matches.
* Wrestling/BryanDanielson holds the ironman record at 1:16:05 if you count the Greatest Royal Rumble, or [[Wrestling/{{Walter}} Gunther]] holds the record at 1:11:40 in the 2023 Rumble if you only count the ones in January. Wrestling/RheaRipley is the current ironwoman record holder at 1:01:08, also in 2023. The record for ''shortest'' iron(wo)man time belongs to John Cena in 2010, as his time of only 22:11 weirdly gave him the honors that year in a Rumble with 40 men. This is far from a guarantee of actually winning, the ironman/woman has only won 10 of 43 Rumbles and neither Danielson nor Gunther won the matches they set the record in, though Ripley did (as did Mysterio, the previous holder of the record held by Gunther for the traditional Rumble and Danielson overall). Wrestling/SethRollins is the only one of those winners to enter after #3 (the number from which Flair won the 1992 Rumble), winning as the 10th entry (with a time of 43:00) in 2019. Wrestling/TripleH (in 1996) has an ironman record with a twist; he lasted 48 minutes without making a single elimination.
* Wrestling/SteveAustin is the only person to win the match more than twice, with 3 (1997, 1998, and 2001). 9 guys have won it twice (in chronological order of their second win): Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, Triple H, Randy Orton, Wrestling/{{Edge}}, Wrestling/BrockLesnar, and Wrestling/CodyRhodes. There's yet to be a two-time women's Rumble winner, but there's also only been 6 women's Rumbles. Hogan, Michaels, Austin, and Rhodes are the only people that have won 2 years in a row.

* Wrestling/SteveAustin is the only person to win the match more than twice, with 3 (1997, 1998, and 2001). 8 guys have won it twice (in chronological order of their second win): Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/{{Batista}}, Triple H, Randy Orton, Wrestling/{{Edge}}, and Wrestling/BrockLesnar. There's yet to be a two-time women's Rumble winner, but there's also only been 6 women's Rumbles. Hogan, Michaels, and Austin are the only people that have won 2 years in a row.

* TheCameo: It's almost tradition now for one of the surprise participants in the Rumble to be a legend from a bygone era. Of course, they never actually ''win'' the event, but they almost always get a huge pop and often notch an elimination or two before going over the top rope themselves. The only subversion was the 2016 ''Royal Rumble'' (unless you were to count [[spoiler:Wrestling/SamiZayn's entry into the match]]), most likely because it was for the World Title itself rather than the usual shot at it.

** In the 2024 Men's Royal Rumble, Wrestling/KarrionKross, after being eliminated by Bobby Lashley, Kross interfere Lashley and later eliminated him from the Rumble match.

* In 43 attempts[[note]]42 attempts for numbers 21-30, the first Rumble only had 20 people[[/note]] entry numbers 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, and 26 have never won.

** As part of a cross-promotional deal, Wrestling/ImpactWrestling Knockouts World Champion Wrestling/MickieJames took part in the Rumble.

** [[Wrestling/NaomiWrestler Naomi]] entered at the #2 spot, marking her first appearance in the company since her walk-out in 2022.
** [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]] Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace entered the rumble, marking the second time the reigning Knockouts Champion entered, the first being Mickie James in 2022.

** Cody's victory made him the tenth wrestler to win multiple Royal Rumbles, as well as the first entrant to win back-to-back Rumbles in 26 years, fourth overall (the last instance of this was Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in the 1997-1998 Rumbles).

** The final two came down to Punk and Rhodes, incidentally marking
** Cody claimed his second consecutive Royal Rumble victory, the first entrant to win back-to-back Rumbles in 26 years and fourth overall (the last instance of this was Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in the 1997-1998 Rumbles).

** [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]] Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace entered the rumble, marking the second time the reigning Knockouts Champion entered, the first being Mickie James in 2022
** Nia Jax had the most eliminations with 8, tying the record of Shayna and Bianca in 2020

** The 2024 Men's Rumble saw the return of [[Wrestling/AndradeCienAlmas Andrade]], Bron Breakker, and Omos. Pat [=McAfee=] had the double-whammy of making unannounced appearance as co-commentator along with Michael Cole and Corey Graves, as well as also being announced as the #22 entrant (who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere swiftly eliminated himself after realizing he'd be getting in a ring with Bron and Omos]]).

** The 2024 Men's Rumble saw the return of [[Wrestling/AndradeCienAlmas Andrade]], Bron Breakker, and Omos. Pat [=McAfee=] had the double-whammy of making unannounced appearance as co-commentator along with Michael Cole and Corey Graves, as well as also being announced as the #22 entrant (who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere swiftly eliminated himself after being approached by Bron and Omos]]).

** Cody becomes the tenth claimed his second consecutive Royal Rumble victory, the first entrant to pull off such a feat in 26 years and fourth overall (the last instance of this was Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in the 1998 Rumble).

** Cody claimed his second consecutive Royal Rumble victory, the first entrant to pull off such a feat in 26 years and fourth overall (the last instance of this was Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin in the 1998 Rumble).

** Jordynn Grace, the at-the-time [[Wrestling/TotalNonstopActionWrestling TNA]] Knockouts Champion, entered at #5, marking the first time ever that the champion of a different promotion appeared in a Rumble match.

** Bayley set the new longevity record at 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 3 seconds.

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[[folder:List of Women's Royal Rumble winners]]

'''2018'''
* '''Winner''': [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]]

** The only real surprise entrant in the 2023 Men's Royal Rumble was Wrestling/BookerT.